The Snow Bike Festival 2017
Arriving in Gstaad in January with fat takkies in hand is like entering wonderland – especially after the fall of picture perfect powder snow, which came just in time for this year’s 2017 Snow Bike Festival. An official UCI event, early on the calendar, the race attracts around 100 riders – some looking for points […]
Snow Epic: Race 1 Results and Pictures
The inaugural Snow Epic got underway yesterday in Engelberg, Switzerland. The opening Race saw riders completing a 30km Furenalp loop with 600m of climbing. In the men’s race Spaniard Tomi Misser look the win (1:05.29) ahead of Bart Brentjens (1:07.29). While Esther Süss claimed victory in the ladies event in 1:16.50. Photo by: Stephan Boegli […]
VEE Tire Co. official sponsor of the Snow Epic
As one of the worldwide leading tire and tube manufacturers VEE Tire Co. is very proud to announce an exclusive tire sponsorship for the first Snow Epic, taking place in Engelberg (Switzerland). The brand with the most extensive fat tire collection available in the market decided to underline its leading position by becoming the first […]
Rocky Mountain Bicycles to sponsor the inaugural Snow Epic
The Canadian company was one of the first to recognise the Snow Epic’s potential and shipped out a prototype of its new fatbike – the Rocky Mountain Blizzard – to Engelberg, Switzerland, for the trial ride of the Snow Epic in April this year. Now it will sponsor the Rocky Dual, a floodlit dual slalom […]
From Sand to Snow: Mannie Heymans to ride Snow Epic
Earlier this year cycling legend Mannie Heymans became the first person to do the Absa Cape Epic on a fatbike. Now he will be swopping the sand dunes of Namibia for the ski slopes of Switzerland – and the first ever Snow Epic. Heymans won the inaugural Transalp MTB stage race in 1998 and then […]
Absa Cape Epic team heads for the snow
The team behind the world’s foremost mountain bike stage race, the Absa Cape Epic in South Africa, is spreading its wings … into the Swiss Alps. From January 14 to 18 in 2015 it will stage Snow Epic, Europe’s first winter festival of biking, in the idyllic Alps town of Engelberg. The riding will be […]